Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Just a reminder about the current Sprinkle challenge (FSC38) to use Flower Soft on your cards that feature orange and black. Halloween's coming up soon!We don't really do Halloween at our house, but I do have lots of cute pumpkin stamps! This one is from Eureka Stamps and it's watercolored with reinkers and Inktense pencils. I grounded the image with some Autumn Flower Soft. The sentiment is from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.If you'd like to join in on the Sprinkle challenge, pull out the Flower Soft - you might even win a prize! Post your orange and black project in the Splitcoast Gallery using the keywords flowersoft (one word) and FSC38. We'd love to have you join us!

Saturday, October 22, 2011

I LOVE all things 'sparkly'. Ok...probably not the best word....is it a word? ;-) ...but I do really love that shiny stuff! The new Flower Soft Diamond Range colors are some of my FAVORITE for that very reason. Today the design team is showcasing the new colors and I cannot wait for you to see what they have come up with. We want you to 'hop' on through the blogs to see what they have created.

Please be sure and leave a comment when the 'sparkle' moves you because I will be choosing from your comments a winner! What will you win???? Three pots of Flower Soft Diamond Range....Ruby, Emerald, and Silver to get you started for this holiday season.

*******You can leave a comment on any of the blogs in the hop or all of the blogs in the hop. I will select from the comments left on ALL blogs....all of the team is playing with this challenge so including the Flower Soft blog that will allow you 11 entries if you leave a comment on each blog!*******

You have until October 29 to leave a comment. A winner will be chosen and announced on October 31.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Hey Flower Soft Peeps! Are you ready for another fun challenge? This week we are all creating a little 'somethin', somethin' using black and orange. Perfect challenge for this time of year! I hope that you all can play along with us. Be sure and upload your creations to Splitcoast using they keyword FSC38 and leave us a comment here so that we can check them out. I cannot wait to see what you come up with! You can also check out our design team members to see what they came up with.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Flower Soft is one of the sponsors for Splitcoaststampers' annual card drive known as Hope You Can Cling To. Through a month-long series of challenges, participants create cards that are donated to the UT MD Austin Cancer Center so that patients in the breast cancer center can receive and share encouragement through the gift of a handmade card. You can find out more information about the card drive and challenges HERE.Here is one of the cards I made as a sample for an upcoming challenge, using Diecut Dimensionals Wildflowers - the preprinted and diecut elements of the set are perfect for quick and beautiful cards. I cut a hole in the precut oval shape to frame the sentiment (smARTworks), and layered additional roses over the ones on the oval. Each flower was shaped with a large stylus. (For a tutorial, you can visit this post.) I sprinkled Ultrafine Sand Flower Soft in each flower center.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Just a quick share with you to show one of the newest additions to the Flower Soft Family-Ultrafine White. This ultrafine is just so soft and downy! Perfect for lots of embellishing.......... it reminds of of the soft fluffy dry snow that you get on a very cool day, as opposed to the icy crystally snow, which the Polar White emulates!!! In any case, both Polar and Ultrasoft White are totally perfect for your Wintery scenes!!!!

Friday, October 14, 2011

Hey Flower Soft Peeps! We wanted to take a day each week to do a little shout out to you, our Flower Soft users by showcasing your work. We will be scouring the web for your designs so be on the look out for an email from us requesting permission to post your projects.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

For the Fall challenge I made a shaker card using Flower Soft's Display Globes and Aperture Cards. These display globes are super deep and allow for a lot of dimension inside. I thought this fun image from Eureka Stamps would be even more fun with a shakable pile of leaves, so I filled my globe with Autumn, Marigold, Earth, and Baby Pink Flower Soft, and some small leaf punchies.The Sentiment I used is from Impression Obsession. I stamped the leaves (Biblical Impressions) over the card, which I colored "direct to paper" using chalk inks. Here's a closer look at the shake-y stuff:

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Happy Fall! It's time for another Flower Soft challenge. This weeks challenge will call for a bit of fall fun! The design team has many beautiful samples for you. Be sure and take a moment to look through them....

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Are you looking ahead to fast and easy Christmas projects? Here's a quick ornament idea using the Vintage Christmas Toppers... I used a square die to cut out the letters image from within one of the scalloped designs. The Fleur de Lis and Labels die are from Spellbinders, and they are layered with foam tape in between for a little more dimension.